Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Drink Your Protein My friend RawJuiceGirl also sent the link for this dairy free, sugar free raw chocolate creation . Now that looks good! But, the recipe calls for a boatload of coconut oil and I am just not that into coconut oil . I feel like it makes everything taste like a pina colada . Not that that’s a bad thing…just an I-don’t-want-it in-my-chocolate thing!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Evening Out Pictures, Picky Eaters, Themed Restaurants Hi Friends! How’s Hump Day treating you? Mine has been good so far. I got a workout in at my regular gym. After trying the new gym and being less than impressed , I’m going to stay put with my current gym and try my best to make it there before Kid’s Club closes and if I can’t swing it, then I will just work out at home and do my Home Gym Workout ....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Brownies Fudgy Nutella Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting Happy Mother’s Day! The mothers in your life will kiss the ground you walk on if you make these brownies. Recently I asked for favorite brownie recipes . I had a plan with that. In addition to needing a great brownie recipe for the bake sale , I also wanted to make some sinfully delicious brownies, for myself....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Got an iPhone After my post about possibly switching over from Blackberry to an iPhone , and reading everyone’s fabulous and glowing reviews about their iPhones, I couldn’t wait any longer. I bought an iPhone a couple days ago! So far I am loving it! And it’s been fun playing around with how I want my screen display to look, wallpaper, banners, settings, apps, and just customizing and accessorizing my phone....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Makes Me Tick The weather over the holiday weekend and past few days has been absolutely gorgeous in San Diego. The kind of weather than makes you say…. ahhh. High 70s, no humidity, no bugs, an Indian Summer weekend in almost December. Can’t beat it. I had a couple glorious runs. The lemon trees are bursting with fruit even in the ‘winter’. That’s what I call locally grown and fresh....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes One-Hour Sweet with Heat Tomato and Pepper Chutney Summer’s bounty of fresh produce is such a wonderful gift. Usually. But if the season has been a little too bountiful, all at once, and you have more tomatoes than you know what to do with, chutney to the rescue. I’m a dip, spread, and condiment lover. I can make a meal from grazing on various salsas, guacamole , hot pepper jelly , mango chutney , homemade honey mustard , crackers and chips....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Raw Vegan Apple Crumble & Two Awards Hi Frrrrriends, how are you doing? I’m doing pretty good. I went and got my hair done for the first time at a new salon . Since moving to Phoenix, I had not yet had my hair done and after 5 years with my guy back in San Diego, I was a little nervous about my first salon visit....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Shake It Up In honor of National Chocolate Milkshake Day that’s coming up later this week, I wanted to share 10 of my favorite smoothies and shakes. Fall-Flavored Citrus and Spice Smoothie (vegan, GF) – Pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon puts me in the mood for fall Spiced Apple Pie Smoothie (vegan, GF) – Better than apple cider because it’s creamy and thick...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Sweets ‘n Treats Since Since I have been talking so much lately about all things green, I figured it was time to show you how I spent my Sunday morning… making all kinds of desserts! First, a quick comment on yesterday’s juicing recipe with the watermelon rind . After I drank the juice, I felt horrible for the rest of the day . I was nauseous, bloated, lost my appetite for the rest of the day and night and most of today, hubby had an upset stomach after his juice, and the mental skeeve factor of the rind was getting to me, too....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Tahini Chicken with Cucumber, Tomato, and Mint Salad Tahini Chicken with Cucumber, Tomato, and Mint Salad – Juicy chicken coated in a flavorful TAHINI sauce with a zesty MINT salad on the side!! EASY, ready in 20 minutes, HEALTHY, and so tasty!! Let’s talk about this easy recipe that’s ready in less than 20 minutes, naturally gluten-free, and pretty darn healthy. Tender chicken is tossed in a tahini-based sauce that’s loaded with flavor from not only the tahini but also from lemon juice, honey, and apple cider vinegar....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thanksgiving: Gratitude I wanted to write a list of some things I am grateful for on this holiday and I will get to that, but first… I’m glad you enjoyed my Everyday Eats post yesterday. Keeping things simple the day before the big cooking & eating fest was the name of the game. Foods like overnight soaked oats Green Salads And Kale Salads with Fresh Veggies for dinners were where it was at....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Very Veggie Rice and Beans Very Veggie Rice and Beans — EASY, ready in 15 minutes, and amps up rice and beans with an abundance of vegetables!! Healthy, Mexican-inspired food that tastes like comfort food and keeps you satisfied for hours!! Healthy Mexican Rice and Beans Many people this time of year are dieting and really watching every morsel they put in their mouth, and this is a healthy meal that tastes like comfort food....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Watching Movies Did you watch the Oscars Sunday night? I didn’t. I haven’t seen a movie in over 5 years. I know, shocking. But I have lived. The last movie I saw was when I was pregnant with Skylar because we had no air conditioning in the 1925 era house we were living in at the time and I was so sick with morning sickness all day sickness and just wanted to be in the a/c....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes We’re Here! Well in an effort to not be a chatty Cathy on this post because yeah, I’ve been bustin’ a hump unpacking, I will just try to give you the highlights. For all of you who missed my last post , I moved. Across state lines and became a homeowner. Hell freaking yes!!! to quote my dear friend Miss VG. Anyway, holed up in a Scottsdale condo waiting for our house to be ready, some of the things we munched were salads with greens, cukes, carrots, & tomatoes...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies White Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cookies What’s the difference between a sugar cookie and a snickerdoodle? Not too terribly much from what I can discern. Sugar cookies are only rolled in sugar whereas snickerdoodles are rolled in both cinnamon and sugar. There’s also some splitting hairs over the type of leavening agent used: baking powder or a combination of baking soda + cream of tartar....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes 6 Words I was reading about 6 Word Memoirs . Their slogan is “One life. Six words. What’s yours?” A little confusing? Basically in 6 words, describe: Happiness (6 words on the secrets to life and happiness such as “Break some rules. Enjoy the euphoria.” ) Love (6 words on love & heartbreak such as “caveat emptor. read the label honey.” ) I found that site based on Angela’s post about 6 word love stories....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blueberry Yogurt Cake with Lemon Vanilla Glaze I used to live dangerously close to a grocery store with an in-store bakery and they made the best yogurt cakes. Dense, rich, sweet, moist, and everything I could wish for in a cake. For better or worse depending on how you look at it, I live about 2763 miles from that grocery store and it’s been nearly a decade since I’ve had a slice of their yogurt cake, but I still think of it fondly....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Car Trouble & Scary Road Moments, Favorite Chips & Crackers, Combining Unique Flavors Hi Friends! Well Monday’s pretty much over. That’s good. I don’t really like Mondays not just because it’s the end of the weekend but because it feels like I have way too much to do on Mondays and everyone seems to need something from me and my phone, voicemail, and email all explode at the seams!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Chocolate Kiss Powder Puff Cookies Powder Puff Chocolate Kiss Cookies — These chocolate Kiss cookies are like a cheater’s version of Russian teacakes. But enhanced with a chocolate Kiss. And you only need 3 ingredients to make them! Easy Chocolate Kiss Cookies Growing up, it was an annual holiday baking tradition that my mom and grandma would bake Russian tea cakes. They loved them, but of all the holiday treats they’d bake, tea cakes were the last thing I’d reach for....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Cookies in the Mail, Winter Workouts Who likes to receive cookies in the mail? I do. I was fortunate to receive these Enjoy Life cookies Enjoy Life Products are Free Of: But not free of taste. For baked goods that are vegan, GF, and free from many common allergies, I give Enjoy Life products their props. Or, you can make your own Vegan + GF brownie-cookies...